Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At Apple we strive every single day to craft products that enrich peoples lives. Our successes are the result of skilled domain experts working in an environment which encourages creativity collaboration and re-thinking of old problems in new ways! As a member of the Satellite Connectivity Group you will work on the satellite network that enables connectivity to iPhone and Watch Ultra when off the grid without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. Every day Apple customers use Emergency SOS Roadside assistance and Messages via satellite to stay connected when they have no other means to communicate. You will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape this and other critical services to the benefit and safety of millions of Apple device users.

Apple is looking for a Senior Engineer with systems and software engineering experience to join our Satellite Connectivity Group SRE team. nnThe SRE team builds monitors and maintains large scale highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite. nnYoull be contributing to distributed systems architecture design and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services. nnThis is a rare opportunity to build and control the entire end to end infrastructure along with all supporting components such as provisioning monitoring deployment and software tools platforms from the beginning within a team with a no-ops culture. nnYou will build and run an Apple service enabling platform that millions of customers may rely on every day. nnYoull also build and run the infrastructure that powers those services with emphasis on build not just operate or implement. nnWere looking for people who like to solve problems using software rather than shell prompts as we scale Apples services for customers around the world. nnHelp us build the Apple experience on a global scale!

Deep understanding of observabilitynStrong familiarity with different monitoring and alerting platforms like prometheus splunk grafana building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available servicesnProven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka Spark Flink Beam etc. nCore Kubernetes conceptsnExperience with modern web-scale services including servers VIPs load balancers proxiesnStrong understanding of Linux internalsnExperience with CI/CD systemsnExperience with GitOps workflowsnInfrastructure As Code (Pulumi Terraform etc.)

Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirementsnAble to write software tools u0026 services needed to build and operate a large scale platformnProficient with Configuration Management systems (Puppet Ansible Salt etc)nUnderstanding of zero-trust application architecturenExperience with IP network design and architecture; Cisco Juniper or Arista routing and switching hardware u0026 configurationnExperience with AWS and/or GCPnExperience with OLAP databases (ClickHouse DuckDB etc.)nExperience with OpenTelemetry nEducation: Technical engineering BS is a positive but not required.